Ogden Daily Standard | 1920-03-18 | Page 12 | High Real Estate Prices May Hold up Construction of U. S. Ordnance Depot, Colonel Says

I HIGH REAL ESTATE PRICES MAY I HOLD UP CONSTRUCTION OF U.S. ORDNANCE DEPOT, COLONEL SAYS I Lieutenant Colonel Bagster of the ordnance department of the United States army, with headquarters in Chicago Chi-cago is visiting in Ogden today and in conference -with J. H. Devine and O.. J. Stilwell of the Ogden Chamber or Commerce with regard to the ordnance ord-nance depot which is to be established in Ogden. "Information reached me yesterday," yester-day," said tho officer, "informing me that the bill containing the claufo of appropriation for the Ogden depot has received the president's signature. We hove not yet made our plans definite'' as to the choice of site. Everything depends on whether we can buy tire land at a price within our allowance under the bill and it might still be held up by real estate owners asking too much for their land. In that case, of course, we would liavc to seek a different location." Colonel Bagster says that the depot will call for the erection of 37 ammunition ammun-ition storage maazines, each requiring 11,000 cubic feet and in add'tion there wjll be the shops and locomotive tracks to be laid.. "We shall not need land for the housing of troops, at any rate, not at the beginning of the building. build-ing. Local labor will be used in the plant and men of the regular forces."